"Biological lifeforms seem to be able to train/develop general intelligence from much, much less."
This statement is hard to defend. The brain takes in 125 MB / second, and lives for 80 years, taking in about 300+ petabytes over our lifetime.
But that's not the real kicker. It's pretty unfair to say that humans learn everything they know from birth -> death. A lot of that learning bias was worked out through evolution... which takes that 300+ petabytes and multiplies it by... many lifetimes.